You Can Win Converts A Little Push
A 76 year old widow in Cliffside Park New Jersey is inspired to join the Catholic Church after a family suggestion. She undergoes baptism first communion and confirmation with Father Cassidy and Bishop McNulty over a three day span. The story highlights gentle invitations as a path to converting others and invites readers to name lay people who helped convert others.
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Carlo Voesli
Cliffside Park
N. J
Ulian Vercelli
England
Roetiaa
South Africa
Boe
Hanoi
St. Jeph's Chu
Southon
United States
New York City
Bergen
St. Josephs
Verellt
St. Joseph’s
Vercalf
Gues
Father Cassidy
McNulty
Queen Elizabeth
Veronica
Church of Christ
John A. O’brien
Notre Dame
Ind
Crossroads Windmills and a Vanishing Power Source
A Mercer County reader outlines a diminishing windmill scene across Crossroads area. The letter notes headless windmills, a few intact on Will Biefr and Wes Meiring farms near St Bernard’s Church Burkettsville and Sharpsburg, with Meiring’s roses and St Paul’s churchyard cemetery dates. The Wa h River runs dry in Darke County on this day. A roadside squirrel is described after a collision.
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Way of the Cross
Mercer County
Will Biefr
St. Bernard’s Church
Burkettsville
Wes Meiring
St.Paul
Sharpsburg
Weitzel Place
Meiring
St. Paul’s Church
Wah
Darke County
Indiana
Crossroads notes and musings in a quirky town vignette
A rambling local piece blends rural life with social humor. It touches on windmills, a hidden storehouse, a Catholic Ember Day mood, and a columnist friend Marvella who shares gastronomic observations and a scrapbook of town life.
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Savins
Marvella
Webster
Thig
Spen
Saint Bill Goes to Heaven In Ceremonial Departure
Rev. Peter Baptist Ishigami a Ryukyuan Capuchin priest leaves New ark City for Guam via St John the Baptist Church. Cardinal Spellman presided at the farewell with Canice Cartmell and others. Ishigami, once a Japanese soldier, will return to Okinawa after studies in Tokyo and ordination in 1952.
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Peter Baptist Ishigami
Ryukyu Islands
St. John the Baptist’s Church
Newark City
Maipaisil
Canice Cartmell
St. John’s Parish
New York
Guam
College of St. Rose names new leaders
Albany New York Lister Catherine Francis and Mother Rose of Ima have been named president and president emeritus of the College of St. Rose operated by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet. Mother Rose has served as a faculty and administration member since the school's founding in 1920.
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Albany, N.Y
Lister
Catherine Francis
Mother Rose
Ima
College of St. Rose
Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet
Missionary Support Flow From Texas Woman to Nellore Clergy
A Galveston Texas woman has sent magazines and pewvesters weekly for two years to Rev Henry Francois Mill Hill missionary in Nellore South India. Father Henry, Dutch native, teaches at the major seminary in Nellore and has served as secretary to Bishop Joseph Bouter for three years.
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Galveston
Tex
Henry Francois
Mill Hill
Nellore
South India
Father Henry
Holland
Joseph Bouter
Paul Works Miracle On Quake Struck Isle
The report notes Saint Paul’s conversion of Sergius Paulus during his first mission journey on Cyprus. It claims no Catholic church or death among 4000 Catholics, with 1000 Latin Rite and the rest Maronite. Describes demographics as Greek Orthodox and Muslim residents in the quake area.
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Nicosia
Cyrpus
St. Paul
Sergius Paulus
Reds Weave Tall Tale in New Delhi
In New Delhi two Italian missionaries faced accusations of anti Indian propaganda which Parliament claimed was a Communist fabrication from start to finish. The so called attack in foreign press consisted of two harmless articles from a small, poorly circulated periodical. The tale originated with a disgruntled teacher dismissed from a Catholic school.
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New Delhi
India
East Germany urged to revise anti Christian history texts
Petrusblatt, the Berlin diocesan weekly, calls for revision of East Germany anti Christian history textbooks in a Berlin report.
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Berlin
East Germany
Petrusblatt
Ethiopian mission school aid noted at Op Keren
A small man at the Christian Brothers School in Op Keren, Ethiopia, receives a present from Brother Gioachina. Brother Adriano, over 80, began the Ethiopian mission after World War II and built a school for hundreds of boys and a junior novitiate. He faces food shortages and English instruction needs.
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Bey Ethi Ia
Christian Brothers’ School
Op Keren
Ethiopia
Gioachina
Brother Adriano
Brothers
Adriano
Moses and Aaron Face Pharaoh in Divine Deliverance
In a reflective study, Moses and Aaron prepare to confront Pharaoh, relying on God’s power as they demonstrate miracles. The piece contrasts God's omnipotence with Egyptian magicians and discusses how divine patience guides human understanding before acceptance.
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Moses
Aaron
Masich
Wizards
Egypt
Tito Arrests Catholic Clergy Shocks Allied Tour
Amid fears of a terror campaign, Tito forces place prominent Catholics under protective custody in Graz and Dalmatia. Father Pavel Pozza, rector of Dubrovnik Cathedral, is beaten and mocked as English speaking priests are warned to stay home. Violence cripples churches and targets clergy across Dalmatia.
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Graz
Austria
Bernard Montgomery
Tito
Pavel Pozza
William D. Larkin
Duluth
Minn
Adriatic Sea
Viscount Montgomery
Rete
Ree Ee
Saks ‘Giveush
Asa Seniame
Vicks Tulovich
Dalmatia
CWO
Senator McCarthy and Jean Kerr to wed in Washington
Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin and Jean Kerr a convert will marry at St Matthew's Cathedral in Washington. Kerr, 29, studied at Kingston University and Northwestern University and worked as a research aide in McCarthy's office until 1952. McCarthy, 43, is a Catholic.
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Joseph R. McCarthy
Republcan
Wisconsin
Jean Kerr
St. Matthew's Cathedral
Washington
Kington University
Northwestern University
Evanston, Ill
Senator McCarthy
Sacred Heart Fathers Retain Their General
Fr. Patrick McCabe, M.S.C., 55, of Melbourne Australia, is reported in Rome as the Sacred Heart Fathers retain their general leadership amid continued reforms and the selection of a new superior.
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Sacred Heart Fathers
Rome
Patrick McCabe
M.S.C
Melbourne
Australia
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